
Solomon Thimothy
@sthimothy
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Growth obsessed, startup to scale up advisor with 2 decades exp. Co-founder of https://t.co/7WIHNF33nu, https://t.co/1bu6vNvZog, https://t.co/uY5TPZz5qQ → Read the latest posts at https://t.co/b26BGvZISc
Chicago → Florida
Joined October 2009
TikTok dances, trending audios, viral gimmicks — they might spike engagement, but they rarely build trust. Long-term growth comes from consistency, not chasing the algorithm.
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Your opinion doesn’t matter. Your market does. Most businesses write copy they like, not what their customer needs to hear. Get out of your own head. Step into theirs.
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No one buys a drill. They buy the hole. Most businesses oversell features and undersell transformation. Sell the result, not the process.
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One ad, one funnel, one headline is never enough. Marketing is iteration. If you’re not testing new versions, you’re stuck guessing. Test relentlessly. Data is the only truth.
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Leads don’t die because they’re bad. They die because you don’t follow up. 80% of sales happen after the fifth touch. If your pipeline is full but your sales are empty, the problem isn’t leads. It’s consistency.
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DM spam. Over-aggressive CTAs. Hard closes before trust. That’s why people ghost you. Lead gen is courtship. Earn trust. Deliver value. Then ask. Not the other way around.
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The #1 mistake: being broad. Broad messages don’t resonate. They’re safe. They’re forgettable. The sharper you get about who you serve, the faster they recognize you as the solution.
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Most marketing dies in the feed because it sounds like everyone else. If people can’t remember what you said five minutes later, you don’t exist. Average is the death of marketing. Say something that sticks.
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Deliverability isn’t the issue. It’s your messaging. Most founders write cold emails like blog posts. Or worse — like pitches from 2013. What you need is a 3-second hook, a personalized insight, and a call to curiosity — not a call to action. Cold still works. You just have
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Throwing money at ads won’t fix a leaky funnel. If you can’t convert 100 visitors, you won’t convert 10,000. Scaling traffic before fixing conversion is like pouring water into a bucket full of holes.
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Most businesses think they’re in the product game. They’re not. They’re in the marketing game. If your audience doesn’t know you exist, it doesn’t matter how great your product is. Marketing isn’t optional. It’s survival.
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You can try to do everything. You’ll burn out. Strategic thinking says: find the right people. Focus on what only you can uniquely do. Let the rest be done by Whos who align with your vision. That’s how business scales without you being everywhere.
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We all have past wins. But if you build your next move around what you’ve already done, you’ll never be ahead. Growth means thinking forward, letting your learning exceed your experience. Let your future be so big it makes your past feel like the rehearsal.
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The weights don’t build muscle. They tear it apart. The rebuilding happens after. That’s how growth works in business and in life too. The setbacks, the pressure, the grind are just the tearing. The recovery, the reflection, the patience are where the growth shows up.
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Everyone’s spending more on traffic, but nobody’s asking what happens 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 the click. Most of your drop-off happens between: — First touch — First call — First follow-up It’s not your ad. It’s not your landing page. It’s the 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘧𝘧. Solve that, and you won’t need
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You’re not short on leads. You’re short on 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. The average B2B buyer takes weeks—sometimes months—before converting. If you're not tracking, tagging, and nurturing those silent prospects, you’re leaving money in the CRM. Build a reactivation workflow. Set
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Everyone talks about lead gen. Nobody talks about lead 𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺. It’s not how many people enter the funnel. It’s how fast they 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 through it. Speed = momentum. Momentum = revenue. Start measuring lag time, conversion steps, and friction between touchpoints. Fix
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Most founders obsess over lead volume. But if you're not converting the ones you 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦... More leads won’t fix the problem. Build the follow-up infrastructure. Track the lag time. Refine the nurture path. Growth isn’t about more—it’s about
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Every week I talk to founders who think they need to burn it all down. New offer. New niche. New funnel. But 9 times out of 10? It’s not a product problem. It’s a positioning problem. If your best buyer landed on your page today… Would they understand it? Would
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You’re not burnt out—you’re just buried under low-leverage decisions. This is how I clear the mental clutter and get back to momentum: 1. 10-min audit of what’s on my plate 2. Delete, delegate, or schedule 3. Reconnect with what actually drives the business forward If you’re
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